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<h1 id="appearance_preferences">Appearance Preferences</h1>

<p>This section describes how to use the Appearance preference panel. If you
  are not already viewing the panel, follow these steps:</p>

<ol>
  <li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
    <span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
  <li>Double-click Appearance to expand the list, then click the name for the
    preferences you want to view.</li>
</ol>

<div class="contentsBox">In this section: 
  <ul>
    <li><a href="#appearance">Appearance</a></li>
    <li><a href="#content">Content</a></li>
    <li><a href="#fonts">Fonts</a></li>
    <li><a href="#colors">Colors</a></li>
    <li><a href="#spelling">Spelling</a></li>
  </ul>
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<h2 id="appearance">Appearance Preferences - Appearance</h2>

<p>This section describes how to use the Appearance preferences panels. If
  you&apos;re not already viewing one of these panels, follow these steps:</p>

<ol>
  <li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
    <span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
  <li>Click the Appearance category.</li>
</ol>

<p>The Appearance preferences panel allows you to set &brandShortName; startup
  options and customize the user interface:</p>

<ul>
  <li><strong>When &brandShortName; starts up, open</strong>: Select the
    components you want to use when you start up &brandShortName;</li>
  <li>Show toolbars as: 
    <ul>
      <li><strong>Pictures and text</strong>: Select this to see text
        underneath each of the toolbar buttons.</li>
      <li><strong>Pictures only</strong>: Select this to show the toolbar
        buttons only.</li>
      <li><strong>Text only</strong>: Select this to show text buttons
        only.</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><strong>Show Tooltips</strong>: Select this if you want to have 
    <a href="glossary.xhtml#tooltip">tooltips</a> appear when the cursor
    is placed over parts of the &brandShortName; user interface and some
    websites.</li>
  <li><strong>User Interface Language</strong>: This setting allows you to
    change the language used in the user interface of &brandShortName;.
    Additional languages can be installed from the &brandShortName; home page.
    <strong>Note</strong>: You must restart &brandShortName; for a new language
    setting to take effect.
  </li>
</ul>

<p>[<a href="#appearance_preferences">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>

<h2 id="content">Appearance Preferences - Content</h2>

<p>This section describes how to use the Content preferences panel.
  If you&apos;re not already viewing it, follow these steps:</p>

<ol>
  <li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
    <span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
  <li>Under the Appearance category, click Content. (If no
    subcategories are visible, double-click Appearance to expand the
    list.)</li>
</ol>

<p>The Content preferences panel allows you to change settings that influence
  how website and message content appears in &brandShortName;.</p>

<ul>
  <li>Website Icons:
    <ul>
      <li><strong>Show website icons</strong>: Select this if you want see
        site-specific icons, if available, in place of the bookmark icon
        <img src="chrome://communicator/skin/bookmarks/bookmark-item.png"
        alt="Bookmark item icon"/>. Website icons are shown to the left of the
        Location Bar and Browser tabs.</li>
      <li><strong>Aggressively look for website icons when the page does not
        define one</strong>: If the page itself does not define a website
        icon, turning on this setting makes &brandShortName; look for a
        &quot;favicon&quot; on the server and use that instead.</li>
      <li>Display website icons in bookmarks menu and toolbar:
        <ul>
          <li><strong>Never show icons for bookmarks</strong>: Select this if
            you only want to see the default icons but not the website&apos;s
            own icon in the bookmarks menu or the personal toolbar.</li>
          <li><strong>Only when website was loaded recently</strong>: Select
            this to show the website&apos;s own icon only if the website has
            been recently loaded and the icon is currently in the
            browser&apos;s cache.</li>
          <li><strong>Always load website icons for bookmarks</strong>: Select
            this to always load website icons to be displayed in the bookmarks
            menu or personal toolbar, even if it&apos;s not in the cache.</li>
        </ul>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><strong>Use smooth scrolling</strong>: Select this to enable smooth
    scrolling. Pressing the Page Down key when this is enabled
    will&mdash;instead of an immediate jump&mdash;smoothly scroll the content
    down to the next page.</li>
  <li><strong>Use hardware acceleration when available</strong>: Select this to
    let &brandShortName; use hardware acceleration (if available) to render web
    sites. If you experience problems with the visual presentation of web
    content, disabling hardware acceleration may solve the issue.</li>
  <li><strong>Resize large images to fit in the browser window</strong>: Select
    this if you want &brandShortName; to automatically shrink large stand-alone
    images so they will fit in the browser window. Clicking on the resized
    image will make it appear at full size.</li>
  <li><strong>Zoom only text instead of full pages</strong>: Select this if you
    want &brandShortName; to only resize text of websites when using the
    &quot;Zoom&quot; function. If this is not selected, the whole page,
    including images, will be zoomed.</li>
  <li><strong>Warn me when websites try to redirect or reload the
    page</strong>: Select this to let &brandShortName; block automatic meta
    redirection (HTTP-EQUIV=refresh) requests by default. When a redirect is
    supposed to be executed, a notification bar is shown instead which allows
    you to permit the redirect on a case-by-case basis.</li>
  <li><strong>Remember zoom levels on a per-site basis</strong>: Select
    this if you want the system to remember the specific zoom level for
    each website you visit.</li>
</ul>

<p><strong>Note</strong>: See the separate preferences panels for colors, fonts
  and languages to further customize content appearance and the Privacy &amp;
  Security section for privacy-related settings that also might influence how
  content appears to you.</p>

<p>[<a href="#appearance_preferences">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>

<h2 id="fonts">Appearance Preferences - Fonts</h2>

<p>This section describes how to use the Fonts preferences panel. If
  you&apos;re not already viewing it, follow these steps:</p>

<ol>
  <li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
    <span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
  <li>Under the Appearance category, click Fonts. (If no subcategories are
    visible, double-click Appearance to expand the list.)</li>
</ol>

<p>The Fonts preferences panel allows you to set page font type and size.</p>

<p><strong>Note</strong>: Some font styles may not be selectable because the
  selected language does not have fonts available for that style.</p>

<ul>
  <li><strong>Fonts for</strong>: Choose a language group/script. For instance,
    to set default fonts for West European languages/script (Latin), choose
    <q>Western.</q> For Unicode or a language/script not yet in the list, choose
    <q>Unicode.</q> For more information, including <q>User Defined</q>,
    see <a href="nav_help.xhtml#selecting_text_encodings_and_fonts">Selecting
    Text Encodings and Fonts</a>.<br/>
    All settings below, except for the checkbox, are stored per language group;
    each can have its own set of font definitions.
    <ul>
      <li><strong>Proportional</strong>: Select whether proportional text
        should be serif (like Times Roman) or sans-serif (like Arial). You can
        also specify what font size you want for proportional text.
        Proportional text is variable in width, so characters and letters vary
        in width.</li>
      <li><strong>Serif</strong>: Select a serif font you want to use for
        web pages.</li>
      <li><strong>Sans-serif</strong>: Select a sans-serif font you want to use
        for web pages.</li>
      <li><strong>Cursive</strong>: Select a cursive font you want to use for
        web pages.</li>
      <li><strong>Fantasy</strong>: Select a fantasy font you want to use for
        web pages.</li>
      <li><strong>Monospace</strong>: Select a monospace font (like Courier)
        and size you want to use for web pages. Monospace text is fixed in
        width, so each character or letter takes the same amount of space.</li>
      <li><strong>Minimum font size</strong>: Select the smallest font size you
        want to be shown on web pages.</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><strong>Allow documents to use other fonts</strong>: Select
    this checkbox to keep a web page&apos;s font and size settings instead of
    your own preferences.</li>
</ul>

<p>[<a href="#appearance_preferences">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>

<h2 id="colors">Appearance Preferences - Colors</h2>

<p>This section describes how to use the Colors preferences panel. If
  you&apos;re not already viewing it, follow these steps:</p>

<ol>
  <li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
    <span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
  <li>Under the Appearance category, click Colors. (If no subcategories are
    visible, double-click Appearance to expand the list.)</li>
</ol>

<p>The Colors preferences panel allows you to set the background and text
  colors on web pages, mail/news messages, and feeds:</p>

<ul>
  <li><strong>Text and Background</strong>: Click the colored blocks to select
    a color for displaying text and backgrounds on web pages and messages.
    <ul>
      <li><strong>Use system colors</strong>: Select this to use the colors
        defined by your system settings (usually the desktop theme) rather
        than choosing the colors yourself.</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><strong>Link Colors</strong>: Click the colored blocks to select a color
    for displaying unvisited, active, and visited links on web pages and
    messages.
    <ul>
      <li><strong>Underline links</strong>: Select this to display underlined
        links on web pages and messages.</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><strong>When a web page provides its own colors and
    backgrounds</strong>:
    <ul>
      <li><strong>Always use the colors and background specified by the web
        page</strong>: Allows web pages and messages to choose displayed
        colors and backgrounds. Your own colors will be used if no colors
        are defined by the content itself.</li>
      <li><strong>Use my chosen colors, ignoring the colors and background
        image specified</strong>: All content uses your own display colors,
        ignoring the web page or message colors and any background image.</li>
      <li><strong>Only ignore the page colors when using a High Contrast
        theme</strong>: Allows web pages and messages to choose displayed
        colors and backgrounds, <em>unless</em> an accessibility desktop theme
        is used, in which case your own colors will be used.</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>

<p>[<a href="#appearance_preferences">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>

<h2 id="spelling">Appearance Preferences - Spelling</h2>

<p>This section describes how to use the Spelling preferences panel. If
  you&apos;re not already viewing it, follow these steps:</p>

<ol>
  <li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
    <span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
  <li>Under the Appearance category, click Spelling. (If no subcategories are
    visible, double-click Appearance to expand the list.)</li>
</ol>

<p>The Spelling preferences panel allows you to determine how spelling is
  handled throughout &brandShortName;:</p>

<ul>
  <li><strong>General</strong>:
    <ul>
      <li><strong>Language</strong>: Use the drop-down list to select the language
        you want to use to check the spelling in your messages or to download more
        dictionaries.</li>
      <li><strong>When typing, check my spelling</strong>: Use the drop-down
        list to select if and how your typing is spell checked.</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
    <li><strong>Mail &amp; Newsgroups</strong>:
    <ul>
      <li><strong>Check spelling before sending</strong>: Select this option to
        have Mail &amp; Newsgroups always check the spelling of your message before
        you send it.</li>
      <li><strong>Check spelling as you type</strong>: Select this option to have
        Mail &amp; Newsgroups always check the spelling of your message as you type
        it.</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>

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